Deccan Chronicle – Online

Farmers cultivating paddy in Khammam district are in distress for more reasons than one. There is little scope to make paddy a profitable option in the country’s ‘rice bowl’. The returns are demotivating considering that a tenant farmer’s income through paddy cultivation per acre is less than what a farm labourer earns in a month. Paddy cultivation has become a curse for small and marginal farmers because of increasing input and overhead costs and exploitation by market forces. Though the state government has been paying the minimum support price (MPS) that has been announced by the Union government, paddy farmers in Telangana remain unhappy.

Mint – Online

Summer-sown crop planting in India has been lagging as the country received below-normal rainfall, the government said, raising concerns about food grain production in Asia’s third biggest economy. India is the world’s biggest exporter of rice and top importer of edible oils. A drop in production could not only limit rice and cotton exports, but also boost imports of edible oils such as palm oil, sunflower oil and soyoil.

The New Indian Express – Online

It is bumper sowing in Karnataka this year, with crops being cultivated in 70.04 lakh hectares, which is 90.96 per cent of the targeted 77 lakh hectares of agricultural land.The big spurt in farming activity is due to good rainfall and also Covid restrictions, which have made many people from cities return to villages. While officials are hoping for a bountiful yield, farmers are sceptical about getting good returns for their produce as the demand and price goes down when the markets are glutted with foodgrains. This is the first time since the 1990s that the State has seen sowing operations in over 70 lakh hectares. In many intervening years, it has been ...

Deccan Chronicle – Online

Farmers expressed displeasure over paddy procurement being undertaken by some primary agriculture cooperative societies. They said that the hand-in-glove tactics of some societies and rice millers are adversely impacting the procurement process. To ensure minimum support price (MSP) for paddy, the state government roped in government agencies. Primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS) and women self-help groups play a key role in the procurement process.

Krishi Jagran – Online

Every living thing needs food, and we rely on plants and animals to provide it. People began growing food in a limited area and utilised specific techniques for managing and improving it. This practice of cultivating crops is called agriculture. In India, agriculture is one of the most important fields. We can’t conceive how the world would be without agriculture. It is critical to understand the significance of agricultural techniques in India. Farmers are the world’s agricultural industry’s backbone.

Daily Excelsior – Online

Dr. Parveen Kumar ‘Tryst with Destiny’ considered being one of the greatest speeches of 20th century; delivered by Pt. Jawaharlal Lal Nehru on the eve of independence, the late Prime Minister had said, ‘At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and ...